Amaury Bouhours and Emmanuel Pilon are at the helm of two of Alain Ducasse's most famous tables. Bouhours, 34, took over as executive chef of Le Meurice in March 2020, just days before the announcement of the first lockdown.

Pilon, 30, is the executive chef at the Louis XV at the Hôtel de Paris (Monaco), sporting respectively two and three Michelin stars. The period, he says, still allowed him to "question and refine (his) culinary identity"